Helen Arvanitopoulos

9.3

Wine was silk. Red fruits that were silky smooth that felt like a beautiful St Etienne Bordeaux will do. I am in love — 3 months ago

Lee Pitofsky

9.5

Bonneau’s 2011 Celestins is stunning tonight, ultra rich, expressive and perfumed with layers of dark fruit preserves, exotic spices and roasted Provençal herbs. It’s pure silk on the palate with killer concentration, fine grained tannins and a finish that keeps on going. So good tonight! — 3 years ago

Mark Mannebach

9.4

2007 vintage and tasting great. Smooth silk like texture with hints of boysenberry and cigar and pencil. Extremely nice — 5 years ago

Fatma m

10

This wine feels like silk — 7 years ago

George Yasutake

9.5

Still my favorite sake to date...smooth as silk, nice finish...just elegant!
— 8 years ago

David Valenti

9.0

Warmth, length and silk on the palate. — 9 years ago

Ben Franco

Owner Winedown cafe & wine bar

9.6

Ruby red with bricking edges ozone, savory red fruits, cranberries and red cherry.. Leather earth and tart fruit #oldbordeaux smooth as silk! — 9 years ago

Martijn

9.0

Easy textbook Brunello. Glowing red transparent, chocolate nose. Drinking with a silk touch, very subtle acidity. — 5 months ago

Ericsson

9.9

The nose is profoundly layered and regal: cedar chest, humid tobacco, graphite, and dried rose petals, unfolding slowly into red currant, black tea, sandalwood, and the faintest whisper of truffle and old parchment. It’s not about intensity; it’s about dimension…

On the palate, it is seamless and sovereign. Red and black fruits are fully resolved into essence rather than flavor; currant, cherry skin, a touch of plum; all wrapped in polished leather and earth. The tannins have dissolved into silk, the acidity remains statuesque, and the finish lingers with a calm, noble persistence that feels endless rather than long.

Chateau Margaux at its absolute summit: complete, composed, and eternal; power expressed through grace, and grace sharpened by the patience of time. Do drink now. — 6 months ago

Wade Eyre

9.0

This was am absolutely lovely surprise!! This was gone between 3 of us in an hour, we simply loved it — 5 years ago

Anupmeera Gokli

9.6

Daddy and mom liked — 7 years ago

Aaron Rogers

9.1

Plum, mushrooms, and rose hips, head up a nice flavor profile for a regularly underrated wine. Almost a milk chocolate lactic mouthfeel with Tannins made of silk and the sweetest kiss of acid. Drinking solo but a beautiful food wine. Better than other wines of its ilk at half the price. — 8 years ago

Michael Simonetti

9.2

Cedar. Tannins made silk. Deep colour, only the meniscus gives you a clue to the age in the visual. Fruit hiding behind dark leather. Feels more alcoholic than 13.4 on the label. Would've called Left bank in my sleep. — 9 years ago

Ericsson

9.7

Mariano García’s final vintage at Vega Sicilia. What a great bottle.

The nose opens with damp forest floor, leather, cedar, and quiet red fruit; subtle, reserved, endlessly composed.

On the palate, it’s silk laid gently over structure: dried cherry, tobacco, graphite, and savory earth carried by fine-grain tannins and measured acidity.

The finish reads like the final lines of a great novel: inevitable, complete, and exactly as it should be. And already, there’s a touch of nostalgia, because I don’t know when I’ll encounter something like this again. — 6 months ago

Sean Smith

9.3

6 hours of air and this was smooth as silk — 4 years ago

Pat A

9.1

Nice easy drinking red. $9 a glass as victorias — 5 years ago

Jesse d

10

Favorite red blend — 6 years ago

Chris England

9.7

A review of 9️⃣’s for fun 😁

The 2009 was made 9 years ago @ £39 & 19 years after the 1990 @ €90 😁 so I thought it would be fun to compare how my favourite Pomerol has evolved 😁

💵 Oh & Petrus next door to this Chateau is 90 times more expensive 🤣

🥊 So 90 vs 09

🏵 90 - 97-98 points
🏵 09 - 94-95 points

🍷 90 - Garnet opaque ruby w/ bricking
🍷 09 - Opaque ruby

⏩ scroll for colour pics on Instagram ⏩

👃 90 - Bordeaux nasal sex of soggy earth, sooty underground 🚇, char-smoked oak, old leather, damp musty cellar, mushroom, mirabelle plums, damson compote, obliterated blackcurrant, herbs, toasted fig, bitter mocha & liquorice
👃 09 - Dark jammy plum & blackcurrant through smokey oak, choc mocha, flint, pencil lead, soggy earthy leaves & wet rock minerals

👄 90 - Med body of creamy earthy smooth silk dark plum & berry bathed in ground mocha & liquorice
👄 09 - Med+ creamy smooth ripe dark plum & blackcurrant body w/ a mocha infusion & mineral tone

🎯 90 - Long mocha liquorice dark fruits mouth filling linger w/ a big happy smile 😃
🎯 09 - Long smooth ripe dark fruit, minerals & rich mocha linger - oh & still big happy smile 😀

⏰ 09 I can’t wait to revisit you in 19 years 😘

👏 @josephjanoueix @jeanphilippejanoueix 😍
— 8 years ago

Bill Bender

9.5

SS in the sweet spot. This is an effortless beauty. Balance. Prowess. Silk. — 9 years ago